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to manifest considerable affection for their friends 

 and masters. Nearly all domestic animals display 

 a. good deal of affection, not only to their young, 

 but to adult members of their own kind and to 

 their human masters. The devotion of the dog to 

 man is without a parallel anywhere. It has been 

 said that ' the dog is the only thing on this earth 

 that loves you more than he loves himself.' When 

 dogs become so much attached to their masters or 

 mistresses that they pine and die on being separated 

 from them, they show beyond any question that 

 they have feelings which, in intensity, are not 

 inferior to those possessed by the more highly 

 developed men and women. And this has hap- 

 pened time after time. 



A pathetic story of love and of its tragic close 

 came last year out of the Maine woods. Two 

 moose, who had been tracked all day by a couple 

 of human tigers, were finally overtaken, when one 

 of them fell pierced by two rifle-balls. The 

 remaining moose, instead of dashing off into the 

 forest, stood still, lowered its head, and sniffed at 

 its fallen companion. Then, raising its antlers 

 high into the air, it bellowed loudly. As the cry 

 of the great creature echoed through the forest, it 

 also fell at the discharge ot the rifles. It was 

 found on examination afterwards that the first 

 moose was blind, and that the second one, which 

 had neglected to leave it for safety, was its pilot. 



My father once owned a cow who contracted a 

 strong affection for my sister. This cow, who 

 showed on many occasions and in many ways her 



